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2025 Q1 Evergreen Cleantech Trends

Read an update from Investment Team member, Shashank Churukanti on CleanTech VC trends from Q1.

March 2025 Cleantech Roundup: Data Center Load Growth Panic? | Ultra Fast Charging | Indoor Ag Wilting

This month, we’re talking about how AI data center growth might or might not stress the grid, new ultra fast vehicle charging and its implications for consumer adoption, highlighting financial challenges in the indoor ag space, and more!

February 2025 Cleantech Roundup: Trade War | Evolving Generation Mix | Climate Tech Investment Data

This month, we are unfortunately again talking about federal policy uncertainty and brewing trade war activities, how the US generation mix continues to evolve, and the climate tech startup investment data Evergreen tracks.

2024 Year-End Cleantech Investment Trends

Check out the Evergreen Investment Team's assessment on CleanTech as 2024 came to a close.

January 2025 Cleantech Roundup: Federal Policy Uncertainty | 2024 Year In Review | Transmission | Backlogs

This month, we’re talking about new uncertainty in federal policy with the Trump administration taking office, a look back at trends and highlights from 2024, a new approach to encouraging new transmission, interconnection queues,and more!

2024 Predict_It Survey Results

Let’s recap the questions from January 2024 and see how our investors and experts fared!

December 2024 Cleantech Roundup: Power Hungry Data Centers | Permitting Reform? | Midwest SAF

This month, we’re talking about how the demand for power for data centers is changing the business of building them, the collapse of federal permitting reform, and new Midwestern sustainable aviation fuel developments. Plus, a few interesting bits about the electric vehicle supply chain.

November 2024 Cleantech Roundup: IRA? | Geologic Hydrogen | Critical Minerals

This month, we’re covering trade disputes in the rare earths supply chain, geologic hydrogen, and a bunch of other stuff, including an election that happened in the United States.

Two Female-Led Climate Tech Startups Win U.S. Bank Foundation Cleantech Inclusion Award

U.S. Bank Foundation and Evergreen Climate Innovations team up to award two early-stage startups, Calectra and Kit Switch, for their emerging solutions in zero-carbon industrial heating and sustainable construction.

October 2024 Cleantech Roundup: Implications of Increasing Energy Demand for Climate Tech | Batteries | Cement

This month, we're covering everything you may have missed due to Halloween season and an upcoming election -- US energy demand, and what it means for nuclear power and direct air capture; All things batteries, and an industrial decarbonization deployment close-to-home.

REPORT: Midwest Home to 761K Clean Energy Jobs, Industry Outpaces Overall Economy

Propelled by Inflation Reduction Act, Midwestern clean energy companies added jobs over 4 times faster than the overall economy; Clean vehicle jobs grew by 9.1% in 2023 & 15,729 new manufacturing jobs added

September 2024 Cleantech Roundup: Nuclear Awakening | Cheaper DAC | Battery Manufacturing | FOAK Support

This month, we’re digging into the recent spate of re-opening shuttered nuclear facilities, record procurements of carbon removal via DAC, new first of a kind deployment support efforts, and one of Evergreen’s portfolio companies announcing a new large scale manufacturing facility.

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